Hook and eye.



PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904.

P. MULOGK. HOOK 'AN]) EYE.

APPLIOATION.IILED MAY 7, 1903.

no MODEL.

Patented June '7, 1904.

PETER'MULOCK, OF LEADVILLE, COLORADO.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,981, dated June '7, 1904. Application filed May 7,1903. Serial No. 156,061. (Nemodeh) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER MULOOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leadville, in the county of Lake and State of Colorado, am the inventor of certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of hooks and eyes for garment-supporters comprising an eye member provided with an integral loop portion and a hook member comprising a base provided with a pair of integral hooks formed of spring metal arranged normally separate from each other throughout their curved portions and adapted to be moved. toward each other against the tension of the spring.

It relates particularly to a device provided with an eye member and a hook member, as

above described, each of the hooks of the latter being provided with a shoulder upon its outer portion adapted to engage the eye when inserted in position and to be held removably in position in the eye by means of such shoulder and the tension of the spring, one of such hooks being provided at its ,extreme end with a guard extendingover the extreme end of the opposite hook, the ends of such hooks being separate from and movable toward and from each other.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an economical and eflicient garmentsupporter.

A further object of my invention is to provide a garment-supporter adapted to be used in connection with overalls and the like, having an eye member adapted to be held in place by means of the hem of the garment upon which it is mounted without the use of stitches extending through the loop of the eye member. t

A further object of the invention is to provide a hook member comprising a base and a pair of hooks adapted to yieldinglyengage the eye and beheld removably in engagement therewith by the tension of the spring movable toward and from each other at their curved ends and forming in" connection with such base a loop adapted to be attached to a suitable suspender.

Other and further objects of the invention will appear from an examination of the drawings and the following specification and claims.

Theinvention consists in the features, combinations, and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a garment-supporter constructed in accordance with my improvements, showing the eye member mounted upon the bib of an ordinary pair of overalls and the hook member mount- 'ed upon an ordinary suspender; Fig. 2, a dea and 61 of the hem of the garment and extend along the side of the cloth opposite the eye, so as to be held in position by means of the hem of the garment and enable the eye member to be sewed into position simultaneously with the making of the hem without the use of stitches extending through the loop of such eye member, thus avoiding the necessity for a separate operation in mounting it in position.

' The arms extend outward in diametrically opposite directions from the baseof the eye and at right angles to the vertical center of the eye a greater distance than the Width of such eye, so that when a hole is made in a garment barely large enough to admit the eye the arms will not pass through it, but will support the garment without being stitched thereto, if desired. I prefer to make these arms in the form of an elongated loop, as shown in the drawings. The upper edge 5 of each arm, that nearest the eye, is straight and extends at right angles to the vertical center of the eye and in alinement with the corresponding edge of the opposite arm. I then provide a hook member also made, preferably, of spring-wire, comprising a base portion 6,

member is attached between the folds i and j of the looped end of such Suspender. (See Fig. 1.) I prefer to attach the looped end of the suspender to the main body portion thereof by sewing it thereto; but this may be done by means of rivets or any ordinary and wellknown manner. Each hook is curved on the outer side of the hook portion which passes through the eye, forming a shoulder portion on each of the relatively compressible parts of the hook portion adapted to engage the eye and be thus held in position by the tension of the spring metal of which the hook is formed. A guard Z is mounted upon the extreme end of one of such hooks, preferably integral therewith, so as to extend over the extreme end ofthe opposite hook and across the space between such ends to insure the entrance of both through the eye when the parts are placed in operative position. The extreme ends of such hooks are preferably separate and movable toward each other against the tension of the spring and from each other by means of such tension. The outwardly curved portions 7': are of course normally wider than the eye through which they are passed into operative position. By this arrangement it will be readily seen that the hooks are normally held so that the curved portions thereof are apart, but movable toward each other against the tension of the spring. Each of the outer ends of the hooks are inclined toward each other at their extreme ends and being curved outwardly to form shoulder portions on the outside thereof, as above described, it will be seen that when the ends of the hooks are inserted into the eye the tension of the spring presses the shoulder or outwardly-curved portions of the two compressible parts of the hook portion apart until they are wider than the eye, and thus holds them in position in the eye. The

lower edges of the shoulders are also at an angle and adapted to cause the relatively compressible portions of the hooks to be pressed together, so as to pass readily through the eye in removing them and yet hold them securely against accidental removal.

Themetallic hook and eye members may be used upon any garment and as a means of fastening garments in lieu of buttons or hooks and eyes and either in connection with or without suspenders.

I claim 1. In a device of the class described, the combination of an eye member comprising an eye provided with an integral elongated loop, and a hook member comprising a base provided with a pair of integral curved hooks of spring metal normally separate at their extreme ends and throughout their curved portions, movable toward each other against the tension of the spring and provided with shoulders upon their outer sides normally wider apart than the width of the eye, and an integral guard upon the end of one of such hooks extending over the end of the opposite hook, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of an eye member comprisin an eye adapted to extend through a perforation in the garment to be supported, and provided with an integral elongated loop adapted to extend between the folds of the garment, a hook member comprising a base provided with a pair of integral curved hooks of springwire normally separate throughout their curved portions, movable toward each other against the tension of the spring and provided with curved portions forming compressible shoulder portions normally wider than the width of the eye, and a guard extending from the extreme end of one of such hooks to the extreme end of the other book, substantially as described.

PETER M U LOU K Witnesses:

LEONARD M. SMITH, R. \V. C. PowuLL. 

